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BYU football: Hall closing in on victory milestone
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Max has been a true competitor and BYU is fortunate to be able to add his name to list of great quarterbacks who have played for the Cougars.
Congrats to Max and all of the coaches and players who have contributed to the tradition of excellence that is BYU football.
Now go out in style with four more exciting wins!
You certainly have selective memory...
Max Hall has done fantastic as a quarterback at BYU. His 4th quarter drive against Oklahoma was one of the best clutch performances I've ever seen. His 4th and 18 conversion in 2007 was certainly a gutsy play.
You were probably one of the lunks who complained that John Stockton sucked at basketball because he never won a title.
How could he not have the amount of wins he has with the schedule BYU has? Ty Detmer at least played some real teams. (and don't throw out Oklahoma because I'll throw out a weak FSU team).
yeah but zero big game win.
Utah fans will be sad after Maxi leaves.
Maxi is like 2nd QB for Utah when Utah plays BYU.
Also looking forward to Utah-TCU game. Go Cougs! Go Utes!
Conference championship? Been there, done that.
Consecutive 10-win seasons? Yup.
Upset a nationally-ranked foe on national TV? Yes.
Beaten TCU? Yes.
Beaten the Utes? Yes, and soon to be yes again.
And for you less-informed "Cougar Fans" who seem to think Ty Detmer was Superman, check out the score of the December 1, 1990 Hawai'i game (59-28).
Or the score of the October 28, 1989 Hawai'i game (56-14).
Or the score of the September 21, 1991 Penn State game (33-7).
Or the score of the September 29, 1990 Oregon game (32-16).
In an interesting parallel, in Ty Detmer's junior year he led to the Cougars to a nationally-televised early-season victory over a big-name team. But he played poorly in his last two games and the Cougars finished...10-3. Sound familiar?
Like Max Hall, at the start of his senior year Ty Detmer led the Cougars against a top-ranked team in a nationally-televised opening season game.
But unlike this year, BYU got spanked 44-28. By Florida State.
Sound familiar?
Max has played the Utes twice, not once.
You seem to forget the "big game" two years ago when Max sliced the Utah secondary apart and made them look foolish. Does "4th and 18" ring a bell?
Max has played the Utes twice, not just once. In the game two years ago he sliced the Utah secondary apart and made them look foolish. Does "4th and 18" ring a bell?
BYU's defenses as of late frustrates the heck out of me because some games they are formidable, but many games they are only bend-bend-bend as long as you don't give up the big play (i.e. let them score as long as it takes them at least 6 plays to do so). If the defense never comes up with a stop once the team is behind what could Max or any offensive player do about it at that point?
I'm not trying to absolve Max of some of the legitimate concerns expressed but everyone has to remember that judging the current vs the past before their body of work is done will always be either to high or to low based on current excitement or disappointment. Time will tell on Max and stats/records can help.
Football is a team game anyway, so BYU fans shouldn't blame all of his poor performances and losses only him. Pull your heads out and realize that Max didn't give up the big plays on defense or miss tackles or drop passes/fumbles, etc...
And to you Mr. RUSerious: Max decides when and where to throw the ball or run with it. Were it not for some serious talent at tight end and receiver making absolutely fabulous catches, many, many more of his upchucks would have gone into the turf or the enemy's hands.
It's completely appropriate that he surpasses Detmers record as he's played well for three straight years. BYU as a team is very similar to Detmer's heisman year where the season began with a great win over #1 Miami followed by a blowout loss to Oregon, Hawaii and the Bowl game. This season BYU had a marquee win over Oklahoma, followed by blowout losses to FSU and TCU. Max Hall is 1-1 in games against ranked opponents this year which matches Detmer's output and if BYU beats a ranked Utah squad this year then he'll be 2-1. It's sad that some fans don't appreciate what we have.
In my mind, Hall is decent, but doesn't compare to Detmer as far as his "football sense" or the ability to win big games, as has been mentioned before
The UofU hasn't had a QB WITH THOSE NUMBERS ever.
1988 = 1-0 ???
1989 = 10-3 (L=WashSt, HI, PennSt[bg])
1990 = 10-3 (L=OR, HI, TXA&M[bg])
1991 = 8-3-2 (L=FSU, UCLA, PennSt, T-Iowa[bg])
Total= 29-9-2 (72% 29/40 ties are counted in the denominator but not in the numerator for wins)
Must have at least one start in 1988 to get the 29 wins but not sure how many he actually started that year. If he started and lost others then the win % goes down.
Max:
2007 = 11-2 (L=UCLA, Tulsa; W=UCLA[bg])
2008 = 10-3 (L=TCU, Utah, AZ[bg])
2009 = 7-2 (so far) (L=FSU, TCU)
Total= 28-7 (80%)
(4 remaining; 3 reg/1 bowl)
Best possible 32-7 (82%)
Worst possible 28-11 (72%)
Rnk Name Years Att Cmp. Pct. Yds Int TD
1 Detmer, Ty 1988-91 1,530 958 63% 15,031 65 121
2 Beck, John 2003-06 1,418 885 62% 11,021 34 79
3 Hall, Max* 2007- 1,242 818 66% 10,348 37 82
From the stats it is apparent that both are very good. Not sure many Ute QB's come close to either :-)
W-L-T W-L Opponents
3-0-0 2-0 Air Force*
3-0-0 3-0 Colorado St.
3-0-0 2-0 New Mexico*
2-0-1 3-0 San Diego St.
3-0-0 1-1 Utah*
3-0-0 2-0 Utah St.
3-0-0 3-0 Wyoming
0-1-0 0-1 Florida St.
0-1-0 2-1 UCLA
* denotes 1 game remaining for Max
Ty:
W-L-T Opponent
1-2-0 Hawaii
0-0-1 Iowa
1-0-0 Miami
1-0-0 Navy
1-1-0 Oregon
0-2-0 Penn St.
0-1-0 Texas A&M
3-0-0 UTEP
1-1-0 Washington St.
Max:
W-L Opponent
1-1 Arizona
1-0 Eastern Washington
1-0 Northern Iowa
1-0 Oklahom
1-2 TCU
1-0 Tulane
0-1 Tulsa
3-0 UNLV
1-0 Washington
Bowl games as starters:
Ty=0-2-1
Max=1-1
Although Ty is credit with bringing the team from behind in the Freedom Bowl for a W in '88 after Covey floundered.
Yr Rcrd. Conf. Conf/Place AP Bowl Result
1991 8-3-2 7-0-1 WAC/1st 23 Holiday T 13-13
1990 10-3 7-1-0 WAC/1st 22 Holiday L 14-65
1989 10-3 7-1-0 WAC/1st 22 Holiday L 39-50
Max:
Yr Rcrd. Conf. Conf/Place AP Bowl Result
2009 7-2 4-1 MWC/
2008 10-3 6-2 MWC/3rd 25 Las Vegas L 31-21
2007 11-2 8-0 MWC/1st 14 Las Vegas W 17-16
Today's MWC is much tougher than the WAC of the 80's or even the WAC of today. It typically was then and is today a 1 team conference year-in-year-out with occaisional teams stepping up to challenge.
Name me a time in the old/current WAC where more than 2 teams were ranked during a season let alone more than 2 at the same time. If memory serves me correctly a couple years ago BYU, UoU, TCU & AF hit the top 25 at some point during the same season (not all at the same time). MWC is by far tougher than old/current WAC.
Max has won and lost big games. What about Arizona, UCLA, Utah? How quickly we forget.
All great BYU QBs lost and won big games. I love Detmer, but he lost some very big games his last year.
Peruse the list of win-loss for all of the other great QBs too and you will realize that Max is in good company. For example, Bosco and teammates went undefeated in 1984, but lost 3 big games the next year to UCLA, UTEP, and Ohio St. in the bowl game.
You Max haters need to knock it off. He is a fine young man that his given his best to represent you and he has performed well. In fact, other than the 2008 Utah game, he has performed well in the other losses. Not perfect, but not bad either.
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